Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, IV. Babette, sentence 131
"And makes himself understood very well when he speaks German," said some.
Who acts: Rudy · What happens: make, understand, speak, say · To what, where: German, some · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, IV. Babette. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rudy), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 makes | punct |
| 2 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 makes | cc |
| 3 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 5 understood | nsubj |
| 5 | understood | understand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 makes | ccomp |
| 6 | very | very | ADV | _ | 7 well | advmod |
| 7 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 understood | advmod |
| 8 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 speaks | advmod |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 speaks | nsubj |
| 10 | speaks | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 makes | advcl |
| 11 | German | German | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 speaks | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 speaks | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 makes | punct |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 makes | conj |
| 15 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 14 said | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 makes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make in a quote | present | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | understand in a quote | past | Rudy | well property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | speak speech: other in a quote | present | Rudy | German | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | some | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent some=Topic |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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